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HACKATHON 2017
PREVIOUS EVENT - BEYOND HACKATHON

2017

Beyond Hackathon is part of Eurobank Innovation Center’s initiatives designed to spark, cultivate and promote open innovation in the Financial Services industry by working collaboratively with the global startup community.

Beyond Hackathon is a regional FinTech Hackathon, bringing together Global Industry Leaders and regional startup ecosystem participants, aiming to develop a generation of FinTech companies that will build products & services to transform customer experience with the use of Eurobank APIs.

In June 2016, Eurobank’ s Innovation Center organized BeyondHackathon, the first regional FinTech Hackathon. We welcomed 150 attendees from Greece, but also from Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia even the UK. It was an awesome weekend. Software developers, marketers, designers & business developers joined us at the Hub Events on Friday evening. After a few inspirational speeches, the pitching sessions began where people had the opportunity to briefly (1min max) share their idea /project so as to raise interest among the crowd. At the networking session that followed, while enjoying pizzas and beers, pitchers tried to lure participants into their team to bring their idea into life!

Hacking began on Saturday morning! The 18 groups of 4-5 individuals formed, dived into their laptops trying to turn their ideas into meaningful products. Mentoring sessions with industry, subject matter experts and bank professionals were held in parallel in order to answer questions and provide guidance. Saturday evening found teams struggling to find ways to make their project add value and by Sunday morning, having experienced mood resembling a rollercoaster, most teams had managed to not only evolve their idea but also create a working prototype!

Later on Sunday evening, 16 teams who had actually managed to not only create a demo of their product or service but also prepare their sales pitch, presented the result of their effort to the judging panel as well as the rest of the participants & visitors. Soon after all the presentations were completed, the judging committee awarded the prizes to the 3 winning teams!

What a weekend! Life-changing, creative, inspiring, educative, full, exciting - these are only a few of the words chosen by the participants to describe their experience. 18 teams worked hard to deliver ideas that aimed to change financial services and bring new aspects of usability. BeyondHackathon was a great event and we can’t wait to do it again this year. Stay tuned, BeyondHackathon 2017 is coming soon!

MEDIA GALLERY

INDICATIVE AREAS HACKATHON 2016

Customer Acquisition & On-boarding

How can we acquire and on-board retail or corporate clients seamlessly?

Loyalty & Engagement

How can we retain retail customers and strengthen engagement?

SME Banking

How can we help SMEs do business better?

Banking in the age of Blockchain & IoT

How can new technologies such as the Blockchain and Internet of Things transform banking?

Prizes Hackathon 2016
WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

Counterfactual

Xbots

Imperia Mobile

THE PEOPLE HACKATHON 2016

Carlos is part of the EMEA South Leadership Team. His sales team is responsible for bringing SAP´s Innovation Portfolio to customers across the region. Featured in Business Insider magazine as one of the 15 power players in the SAP community. Before joining SAP, Carlos was Sales Vice President at Meta4, HRAccess and Raccoon based in USA, Mexico and Spain. He started his international career at Hewlett Packard. He is an international speaker on Innovation and the author of the book “Are you ready for China?” published by the Centre of Social Investigations and ICTE University in Mexico.

James is a Manager in Accenture Banking Practice and the Programme Director for the FinTech Innovation Lab, a 12-week fintech accelerator which brings together senior executives from the world’s largest banks and the best fintech entrepreneurs. James is also an active member of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) and the Tech London Advocates. He is key contributor to Accenture’s fintech research, most recently publishing the report «Fintech and the evolving landscape: landing points for the industry»

Spyridoula is Heading the Banking Industry & the performance agencies in Greece. She has worked closely with the largest agencies & brands, providing advice for efficient use of Google platforms. Her goal is to educate the local market around the catalytic changes in consumer habits as well as media consumption.

Liz has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. In addition to being an internationally recognised conference speaker and moderator, she is also a regular contributor to Brett King’s Breaking Banks radio show on the VoiceAmerica Business channel.

Nikos Makris has worked in IT industry for over 15 years, mostly in Microsoft. Today as Enterprise Architect in Microsoft’s Services Organization in Central & Eastern Europe he deals with strategy and transformational IT projects in the Banking sector with a focus in digital banking and advanced analytics. He has significant experience in alternative channels in Banking and experience in BI and data integration projects. He is an experienced presenter participating in Microsoft & IT Community events. He is an IT graduate and holds a Master Degree in IT from the IT & Telecommunications department of the University of Athens. Recently he acquired an Executive MBA from Athens Economical University.

Moran is the founder and CEO of 'Miss Finance' (former 'Miss Bitcoin'), a trusted source of education and inspiration providing content, services and products, tailored to fit the needs of women high tech entrepreneurs. Moran is a member of and an activist in the local and global Bitcoin community, and has operated as an ambassador and co-managing partner at the TLV Bitcoin embassy, in Israel.

Stavros Ioannou is Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Group Chief Operating Officer (CΟΟ) & International Activities and he is also Member of the Strategic Planning Committee and Member of the Executive Board and Management Committee. He was assigned with the role of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of ERB Business Services in December 2014 and of ERB Eurolife Life Insurance and ERB Eurolife General Insurance in February 2015. He is Member of the Board of Directors of ERB Property Services since November 2013 and of ERB Insurance Group Holdings S.A. since September 2014, while he was addressed with the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors of BE – Business Exchanges S.A. in January 2014. He is Member of the Supervisory Board of Bulgaria AD since October 2015 and Member of the Board of Directors of Eurobank Cyprus Ltd since November 2015. He holds a Degree in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus and a Master’s Degree in Banking & Finance from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Banking Association.

Theodore Kalantonis is Deputy CEO, Retail Banking – Executive Member of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for all the retail banking activities of Eurobank Group, including Consumer Lending, Credit Cards, Mortgage Lending, etc. Curently, he is also serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eurobank Household Lending and he is a Member of the Board of Directors of Eurobank Business Services S.A., Eurobank Financial Planning Services S.A. and Eurolife ERB Insurance Group Holdings and its Greek subsidiaries. Prior to his current role, he has had various executive management roles in the Banking Industry such as Executive General Manager, Head of Retail Banking Products and Non-Performing Loans at Alpha Bank (2013-2014), General Manager / Member of the Executive Committee at Eurobank and also appointed Head of the Mortgage Lending Business Unit and Managing Director of Eurobank Cards S.A., a subsidiary of the Eurobank Group (2000-2013). Theodore, commenced his career in 1987 as Management Consultant with Batelle Europe in London, and has since had a significant career in the banking sector by holding various roles as Head of Retail Banking, American Express Bank (1998-1999), Manager Consumer Lending, ABN AMRO Bank (1994-1998), and founding member of the Department of Credit Cards, Ergasias Bank (1992-1994). He holds a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Athens as well as an MBA from the Manchester Business School.

Liz has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. In addition to being an internationally recognised conference speaker and moderator, she is also a regular contributor to Brett King’s Breaking Banks radio show on the VoiceAmerica Business channel.

Sotiris Sirmakezis is a General Manager and the Group Chief Digital Officer at Eurobank Group. He supervises Electronic Banking Channels (ATM/APS, web, mobile, phone), Retail Analytics & Multichannel Commercial Campaigning, Digital Marketing, Retail Customer Experience, the Bank-wide Digital Transformation Program as well as Eurobank’s newly established Innovation Centre. Prior to Eurobank, Sotiris served 15 years at Piraeus Bank Group, as a Director of Electronic Banking (2000-2011) and General Manager, Retail Banking & Electronic Business (2012-2015). Sotiris is the founder of “winbank”, the most successful and innovative family of electronic banking channels and services in Greece and SE Europe. During his time in Piraeus Bank Group, he also served as a Board Member in various subsidiaries of the group as well as in large Greek corporations. Sotiris has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete.

Mr. Vassilis Trapezanoglou is an Executive Advisor at Viva Wallet SA, President and Owner of DISC SA - Digital Innovation Services Center. He has studied Mathematics (Salonica), Applied Informatics (Grenoble, France) and post-graduate Regional Development (Panteion, Athens). During his career he has assumed the responsibilities of IT Manager at Oil Refineries (ELPE, Motor Oil) and Xiosbank, of General Manager for Retail Banking, Electronic Banking (Winbank), IT & Organization at Piraeus Bank and of Executive Counsellor at Eurobank (IT and e-Business).

He has served as Chairman and/or CEO of IT and Services companies (LogicDIS, e-Solutions, Business Exchanges, e-Vision, Exodus, Piraeus Direct Services, ABC, Multifin, Sigma Securities). Member of BoD at DEH (2000-2004), Vice-President of TESYP, member of Investment Committee of TANEO and member of Executive Jury for European ICT Prize during 13 years. Member of BoD and President of EPY, the Greek Association of IT Scientists (1997-1986).

He has undertaken several innovative initiatives in the digital area and he is the author of the e-book “Innovation and Technology: The role of ICT for extrovert and customer focused business models” (2010, available at www.think-act.gr) . Since 2011 he supports, as a mentor, evaluator or judge, several initiatives and institutions promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship, such as incubators, accelerators, innovation competitions (Egg of Eurobank/Corallia, ACEin and e-nnovation of Athens University of Business & Economics, Innovathens of Technopolis). He is a member of ICT Steering Committee at General Secretary Research & Technology. Born in Sochos, Salonica (1947).

Spyros Trachanis is a partner with Odyssey Venture Partners. With offices in Athens and Palo Alto, Odyssey invests in world class, early stage technology companies starting up in Greece. Spyros is a venture capital investment professional since 1999, working with fund managers such as NBGI and Global Finance and has invested and served on the Boards of a series of Greek technology companies. Spyros holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from U Patras and an MBA from Insead.

Head of Strategy and Business Process Management , Individual Banking General Division, Eurobank Group

Yiannis’ role is the compliance of the company’s Business Strategy based on Group’s Priorities a) by proposing key drivers on the Business Framework, b) by ensuring the implementation of the approved Investments/ΙΤ Projects/Initiatives, c) by ensuring the proactive adjustment of Business Processes/Business Model. Before joining Eurobank, he has served in Citibank's IT department in Greece as Diners Card applications head. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from Athens School of Economics and has worked in Technology Field as Programmer/Analyst Manager for Banking Applications with quite substantial experience.

Sebastiano Boni is a Designer specialized in creating innovative user experiences in the digital space. Thanks to his multidisciplinary expertise, Sebastiano developed an integrated approach/vision to design, merging Art Direction, Visual Design and Illustration with sharp attention to detail and a unique visual style. Sebastiano is Senior Visual Designer in Fjord Milan.

Athanassios has served as Head of E-Services at Eurobank Corporate Transaction Banking Sector and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Eurobank Factors SA. He is also member of the Eurobank Factors SA Executive Committee. Before joining Eurobank S.A. (2004), he has served as IT Consultant at Scientific Institutions and as IT Director at Tech companies. He holds a degree in Physics along with an MSc in Information Technology from the University of Athens, and an MBA from the Athens University of Economics & Business. He has been engaged in several scientific projects in the areas of Technology and IT at the University of Athens.

Carlos is part of the EMEA South Leadership Team. His sales team is responsible for bringing SAP´s Innovation Portfolio to customers across the region. Featured in Business Insider magazine as one of the 15 power players in the SAP community. Before joining SAP, Carlos was Sales Vice President at Meta4, HRAccess and Raccoon based in USA, Mexico and Spain. He started his international career at Hewlett Packard. He is an international speaker on Innovation and the author of the book “Are you ready for China?” published by the Centre of Social Investigations and ICTE University in Mexico.

James is a Manager in Accenture Banking Practice and the Programme Director for the FinTech Innovation Lab, a 12-week fintech accelerator which brings together senior executives from the world’s largest banks and the best fintech entrepreneurs. James is also an active member of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) and the Tech London Advocates. He is key contributor to Accenture’s fintech research, most recently publishing the report «Fintech and the evolving landscape: landing points for the industry»

Spyridoula is Heading the Banking Industry & the performance agencies in Greece. She has worked closely with the largest agencies & brands, providing advice for efficient use of Google platforms. Her goal is to educate the local market around the catalytic changes in consumer habits as well as media consumption.

Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios works at the Technology Department of Microsoft Greece as a Technical Evangelist. His primary focus is design and development of innovative apps and games for mobile devices with a cloud backend, in collaboration with major software houses in Greece. He has a degree in Informatics and Telecommunications from the University of Athens and an MSc from the University of Piraeus. Moreover, he has worked as a software engineer in various software vendors and has taught software development in private universities. In parallel he has been involved in an educational games startup, developing games for children 3-6 years old. You can read his blog at www.dgkanatsios.com

Head of Group IT Architecture & Integration Management - Eurobank Group

Gasser is the Head of Group IT Architecture and Integration Management in Eurobank Group. He is a business oriented senior IT executive with 27 years’ experience in Business and IT Consulting, Business Integration, IT Strategy Formulation, IT Transformation, IT Governance, Cross-functional IT Management, Program Management and Solution Integration. Since he joined Eurobank Group in 2004, he led various IT units and functions including Strategy & Governance, Application Management, Solution Delivery, Infrastructure and Operations Management, as well as the delivery & optimization of critical business and IT capabilities. Before joining Eurobank Group, he worked in Accenture as Partner in the Financial Services Market Unit, where he led Solution Engineering and Solution Operations service lines in Greece and managed major Financial Services clients’ engagements and accounts. He holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications and Electro-physics from the University of Alexandria, Egypt.

Haris Karonis is an Electrical Engineer and the current CEO of “VIVA WALLET S.A.” (www.vivawallet.com), “VIVA ONLINE SERVICES S.A.” (www.viva.gr) and “VIVA PAYMENT SERVICES S.A.” (www.vivapayments.com). He has 20 years’ experience as an executive in the Internet and Telecommunications Sector and more than 15 years of experience in the Banking Industry. He started off his career in 1996 as a Sales & Marketing Manager at Groovy Net (one of the first ISPs in Greece) and a year later he became General Manager. In 2000 he founded VIVA WALLET S.A. (formerly known as REALIZE S.A.), a leading company in Web development & Technology Marketing Services, while five (5) years later he established VIVA ONLINE SERVICES S.A. that provides innovative ITC Services and Destination Manage Services (DMS). In 2010 he founded VIVA PAYMENT SERVICES S.A., a Ε-Money Institution licensed by the Bank of Greece, to offer innovative online and mobile payment services. The company launched in 2013 the 1st mobile wallet in Greece called “VivaWallet” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wptdIeLggw) and began its international expansion by obtaining a passport to provide payment services in 31 countries of the EEA. Besides his industry appointments, Haris Karonis has offered consulting services in numerous Greek companies and is currently the Chairman of the Board of HAMAC (Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies).

Panagiotis works as a full-stack software engineer for Warply Engage marketing automation platform. His skills span from backend, frontend development and databases, to team management and leadership. Prior to Warply, he worked as an intern in SAP HELLAS specializing in the SAP HANA platform. And he holds a BSc in Management Science and Technology at University of Economics and Business Athens.

Dimitris, holds a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Object Oriented Software Systems. He worked for Accenture for 5 years in various projects mainly in the Telecom Industry. Joined Microsoft 9 years ago, at DX, as an Developer Evangelist and then as Partner Business Evangelist focusing primarily on Azure adoption from Partners & Startups. Now working in Technical Presales focusing on solution in data platform. He enjoys reading, coding & playing Doom.

Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business

Dr. George Lekakos is the Scientific Coordinator of the MSC in Management Science and Technology. He teaches and pursues research on both technical (e.g. programming, data analytics) and e-services design topics (such as e-payments and digital currency services). The last 15 years He has been involved in several EU funded ICT research projects as well as in consulting projects for large organizations (e.g. Google), associations (e.g. SEV) and all major Greek banks. He has been member of numerous technical and advisory committees for Greek Ministries concerning the development of e-commerce and digital services in Greece (e.g. e-invoicing and e-payments committees). He has also served as mentor or evaluator in many innovation competitions (including Hackathlons).

Liz has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. In addition to being an internationally recognised conference speaker and moderator, she is also a regular contributor to Brett King’s Breaking Banks radio show on the VoiceAmerica Business channel.

Alex is an experienced digital marketing professional with over eight years’ experience within the Greek advertising market. He began his career as a User Experience (UX) and User Interaction (UI) designer working with national and international brands such as Nestle, Unilever, Athenian Brewery and Cosmote. Upon achieving multiple awards within his personal & professional projects, Alex contributes his efforts in his new role as Art Director at Isobar Greece

Nikos Oikonomakis is employed the past eighteen months by MasterCard as customer delivery manager for the Greek, Cypriot and Maltese market, being responsible for all new innovative technology projects (such as Masterpass, MDES, mobile proximity payments, InControl). In the past, he has worked in Alpha Bank, where from the position of business analyst/project manager was responsible for the implementation of the first contactless card product and the first mobile payments application in the Greek market. Moreover, he has worked in Eurobank as junior developer in the Front end card system of the bank. He is a graduate of the Polytechnics school in Patra in Computer Engineering and also has a MBA in IT diploma from University of Leicester, UK.

Costis Paikos engages in the digital business of Eurobank Group since 2002. Today, as the e-Business Services Subdivision Manager of Eurobank Group e-Business Sector, he is responsible for the development and marketing of the Bank's award winning electronic services for retail customers, such as e-Banking, m-Banking, e-Statements, Alerts. Additionally, he also specializes in Interactive Marketing, having designed the implementation strategy for several initiatives in the digital media. Since 2009, he has been a Board Member of the Hellenic Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB Hellas), responsible for the financial and the educational activities of the organization. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the U.K and Postgraduate Degrees in Business Administration from the U.S and Greece.

Assistant General Manager, Head of Group IT Business Intelligence, Channels, and Packaged Systems - Eurobank Group

Alexandros is Assistant General Manager of Eurobank, holding the position of of Group IT Applications Head responsible for Business Intelligence Competency Center, Electronic & Physical Channels, Packaged Solutions and Domestic Subsidiaries Applications. He joined Eurobank Group in 2001, as the IT CRM Manager responsible for the creation of Corporate Data Warehouse and CRM technological landscape of the Bank. Since then, Alexandros held various senior management positions in Group IT, leading Business Technology Group, Business Intelligence Competency Center, Applications Delivery Sector and Group IT Applications. Prior to that, Alexandros worked for Deloitte Greece in Athens as a senior IT consultant in the Telecommunications Industry for about five years and before that, he was working for nearly four years as a Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence & Decision Support Systems Lab of Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Alexandros has an IT academic background (from AUEB, Department of Informatics).

Moran is the founder and CEO of 'Miss Finance' (former 'Miss Bitcoin'), a trusted source of education and inspiration providing content, services and products, tailored to fit the needs of women high tech entrepreneurs. Moran is a member of and an activist in the local and global Bitcoin community, and has operated as an ambassador and co-managing partner at the TLV Bitcoin embassy, in Israel.

Achilleas is a Mechanical Engineer from the NTUA (National Technical University of Athens), and also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). He joined the Bank in 2000 and throughout these years he has been responsible for the strategy, development, marketing & promotion of the Bank’s e-Channels & e-Services (i.e. internet banking for individuals & businesses, mobile banking services, payments & e-commerce, websites & social media, etc.). He represents the Bank in several committees, such as the Hellenic Bank Association for the entire eBanking Channel, as well as for specific projects (currently e-Government initiatives, MyBank payments scheme, e-Invoicing, mobile P2P payments) and has served for 6 years as the General Secretary for the Interactive Advertising Bureau Hellas. Before joining the Bank his professional & management experience derived from large multinational FMCG companies (Metaxa/IDV & Diageo), in the areas of Brand Management/Marketing, International & Strategy.

Dimitris is a student in school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National Technical University of Athens. His personal story starts at the age of 14, when he developed e­-kloges.gr, an online voting platform which has been used by more than 40.000 users and this year has been adopted by the Ministry of Education of Greece. In 2014 he joined Google, where he currently works as an IT Expert.

Panos is a Commercial Director in Eurobank, responsible for the Small Business Banking Segment. His field of activity covers the daily transaction banking, financing and advisory support to SME In terms of improving operational efficiency. Panos works in Eurobank since 1998, and has significant experience across all segments of Retail Banking, having served as Regional manager in Branch Network. He is a graduate of the Bradford Business School (BSc) Business Management and holds MBA from ALBA Graduate School.

Teresa has acquired a BA degree in Graphic Design (First Class Honours) and has 10+ years of working experience in design and user experience. She currently works at Wedia as a User Experience Architect and she is responsible for generating and executing great user experiences for the clients and their end users.